‘Imagine a Carthage sown with salt’: Creeds, Memory, and Vision in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
This article considers Marilynne Robinson's complex relationship to religious creeds. In particular, it argues that Housekeeping, Robinson's most apparently unstable, indeterminate novel, is in fact shaped around a series of creedal statements. These statements proclaim faith in the imagin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 92-109 |
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| Summary: | This article considers Marilynne Robinson's complex relationship to religious creeds. In particular, it argues that Housekeeping, Robinson's most apparently unstable, indeterminate novel, is in fact shaped around a series of creedal statements. These statements proclaim faith in the imagination and its capacity for what Robinson calls ‘visionary memory’—the ability to fold past and future into a millenial present. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frt006 |